New York · Nonprofit
Dancing Classrooms Inc
Dancing Classrooms Inc (New York) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,505,295 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($772,880). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Dancing Classrooms Inc does
Mission
Dancing Classrooms cultivates essential life skills in children through the joyfulart and practice of social dance. Our vision is to create schools and communitieswhere every child is connected, respected, and provided a safe environment in whichto thrive.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Dancing Classrooms School Residency: The Dancing Classrooms Residency Programs serve students in grades K12 during the school day, after school, and in summer. Students learn social dances from around the world, along with their cultural histories, building confidence, motivation, and cross-cultural understanding. Teaching Artists collaborate with classroom educators to create joyful, inclusive learning environments that foster teamwork, respect, and self-discipline. Principals, teachers, and families consistently praise the program for its positive impact on student engagement and social-emotional growth. Dancing Classrooms delivered residency program services to over 14,000 students in over 400 classrooms/groups in over 100 schools and after school sites across the NYC metro area.
$1,407,364 spent$930,148 earned by the program97% of program spendingNational Network: The Dancing Classrooms National Network & Training Institute supports affiliate sites and educators across the country through curriculum and marketing resources, teaching artist and site director training, and monthly office hours. The network encourages collaboration and sharing of best practices to strengthen program quality nationwide. Through the National Network, an additional 20,000+ students receive Dancing Classrooms social dance programs.
$42,301 spent$53,600 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,449,665.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $2.2M (+36%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 4% · 2019 3% · 2020 6% · 2021 42% · 2022 29% · 2023 10% · 2024 13% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
39% of Dancing Classrooms Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Eve Wolff
Executive Director
Board chair
Jephtha Tausig
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $131k → $592k.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Dancing Classrooms Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Dancing Classrooms Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
43% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Dancing Classrooms Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 31% · 2019 35% · 2020 24% · 2021 18% · 2022 62% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
56% of Dancing Classrooms Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of Dancing Classrooms Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Dancing Classrooms Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Dancing Classrooms Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dancing Classrooms Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Dancing Classrooms Inc?
- Dancing Classrooms Inc (New York) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,505,295 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($772,880). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dancing Classrooms Inc have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $3,505,295 in grants to Dancing Classrooms Inc, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dancing Classrooms Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $772,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dancing Classrooms Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing